The Senator

Freakin' Gogolak!!!! May 17, 1966: Pete Gogolak Leaves Bills, Jumps To NFL Reverse the Curse!!!!

Senatorial Prediction - Fitz connect with Stevie for 2 TDs, Chandler for a 3rd, CJ and Freddie add one each. Bills defense shines. Poz leaves game early in Q2 with fractured forearm. Early prognosis has him missing 6-8 weeks. Buffalo Bills 38 Los Angeles Jaguars 0 19 and 0 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! PosWHOsny?????

Ditto - with the possible exception of being pelted by beer bottles in the Foxboro parking lot simply for wearing a Bills #7 Flutie jersey, I can't think of crowd more hostile to visiting colors than RWS. (And I've been insulted by some of the best!)

This guy is torn between USC's 2 Matts (OT Matt Kalil or QB Matt Barkley) going to the Bills in round 1... Mocking the Draft I say take Barkley in round 1. We can Adcock in round 2.

Not exactly - I posted the 2008 article from SI because I thought some others might find it of interest, but Barkley has pretty much the same playing experience as St. Andrew... Matt Barkley (And, btw, is a year younger - having played as a true freshman ) Just sayin' the Bills might actually have a shot at drafting Barkley, which they won't with Luck, that's all - no need to get all unfair and unbalanced!

We'll likely never know the full story behind the trade, but rumor is that Evans requested it (he wanted an opportunity to play for a contender while he still had something left in the tank). I have no problem with the Bills accommodating his request (as noted, his production was on the decline here - and no one wants a player that wants to be elsewhere), but really thought we should have gotten better than a 4th. .

In the immortal words of Mike Leach...

Lee Evans did not participate in Ravens practice on Saturday, and was spotted wearing a protective boot on his left foot. (link) Why would any sane individual want to trade a 2nd round pick (i.e., a shot at OT Levy Adcock or QB Brandon Weeden) for an aging WR whose best season was 5 years ago and whose production has steadily declined since??? .

Don't know how far a drive it is for you, but I've ALWAYS found the Bills ticket office and sales staff easier to work with in person - and they bend over backwards for club-seat owners. (Edit: I guess if you're in Houston, it's a bit of a long drive )

Hey!!! Watch your !@#$ing language!!!! (Don't make me come up there! )

I got an email from OBD yesterday that they have season tix available in the "first few rows" due to non-payments. So yeah - ticket sales are down, hopes are low, and I can imagine that morale sucks. It's always darkest just before it goes to pitch-black.

Forget Landry Jones and Andrew Luck - they will both be long-gone by the time the Bills get to the podium. Set your sights on UCS's Matt Barkley - a 2013 prospect that will likely graduate early and declare for the 2012 draft. Adcock in round 2...

On a somewhat related topic, I recently read that Peyton Manning was a Phi Beta Kappa! (Wonder if, had he really applied himself at an early age, he could have gotten into Mizzou?)

You're absolutely right, KFBD - not Luck's fault at all that he's so revered (but even still, the incessant worship is no less annoying), and I don't dislike him - not at all - I'm just amused by the hype. And neither can I claim to find glaring fault with any aspect of his game (although I don't watch every Stanford game). I would be more convinced of his inevitable deity, however, if 1) He continues to play at a high level after losing his O-line and several key offensive weapons; 2) He continues to play at a high level after losing his coach and mentor, Jim Harbaugh; 3) He demonstrates his apparent offensive prowess for more than 15 or 16 college games; 4) He demonstrates his apparent offensive prowess against teams other than PAC-10, WAC, and Big Sky powerhouses like San Jose State (1-12), Arizona State (6-6), Sacramento State (6-5), UCLA (4-8), Washington State (2-10), etc. In all likelihood, barring the Bills trading up, he will be gone in the 2012 draft long before the Bills get to the podium, as will Landry Jones. Given USC's situation (probation, no post-season bowls, etc.), young Matt Barkley may also choose to enter the 2012 draft - can't say I've watched him at all, but I'd guess he'll be available when the Bills pick in mid-to-late in round one. Steve Clarkson, considered one of the premier QBs coaches in the nation, has apparently described Barkley as a cross between Joe Montana and Tom Brady... In February 2008, when Barkley committed to the Trojans as a high school junior, Clarkson told SI.com's Arash Markazi that Barkley was "on track to be the greatest quarterback I've ever worked with ... We're actually working on pro stuff because that's where his mind-set it. He's now training at two levels above his peers." At the time, it seemed like typical recruiting hyperbole. But then Barkley stepped onto the USC campus last spring and exceeded the coaches' wildest expectations. By Barkley's fifth practice, Carroll realized he was dealing with a rare phenomenon. "He shouldn't have been able to do the things we saw him doing," said Carroll, whose previous USC quarterbacks include two Heisman winners (Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart) and a top five draft pick (Mark Sanchez). "We have a quarterback that's unusual. He's so far ahead of the curve, that it's hard to predict what he's going to be able to do." (link) The 'SoCal stigma' aside, it sounds like Matt Barley would look darned good in Bills' blue! So you can see, despite all the nonsensical Andrew Luck hyperbole and lofty claims of St. Andy being a 'once-in-a-lifetime' QB prospect, that only holds true until the next 'once-in-a-lifetime' QB prospect emerges from the shadows. (Oklahoma State's Brandon Weeden - whom I'd also like to see the Bills select - will probably be there for us in round 2 of the 2012 draft, maybe even round 3.) .

Alec Baldwin might.

Yes, well it should be pointed out that your intense, forensic case of chronic Andy-worship may stem from the fact that you live in the Church of St. Andrew, and that your weekly Sunday Church Bulletins are the Andy-worship-laced Sunday sports pages of the San Jose Mercury Snooze and the San Francisco Comical.

I am not what anyone would call a teetotaler, not by any stretch of the imagination, and admit to having been embarrassingly inebriated at some of the games during my younger days, but I was never more horrified at the collective behavior of a Bills crowd than that Monday night game against the Browns a few years back. Even though I took the NFTA Game Day Express to avoid a possible DUI or getting hit by a DWI-driver, I still had to amble through a parking-lot 'scene' of raging bonfires within inches of the gas tanks of the SUVs that transported the adjacent cadres of screaming drunks. The closest comparison I can think of is that it best resembled a burnt-out city-scape right out of Escape From NY - flames, smoke, screamed-obscenities, violence, and mayhem all around me. After that game, I swore off attending night games at The Ralph altogether. The proliferance of alcohol abuse, when coupled with what seems to be a steady decline in basic human civility toward one another, is what has driven then Bills organization to these new policies at this point - and while we may not like it, whom do we have to blame? So go to the games, enjoy a few beers even - but continue to behave like animals, and you'll see even more draconian policies. OK, StuckInCincy-like rant is over... GO BILLSSS!!!! 19 and 0 baby!!!!!

Well I can certainly see where the comparisons to Peyton Manning are inevitable - Luck did, after all, play well in 8 games his freshman season and, save for choking against Oregon last year, shined in one of college football's weaker conferences his sophomore year. That's almost the same as Peyton Manning lighting up the SEC for 4 seasons. As fate will have it, Luck will likely fall to Harbaugh and the 49ers somewhere in the early-middle of round one.

Sorry KTFABD, guess I'm not clear on what folks mean when they interchange the terms - to me, as you stated, you're either a 'true freshman' , i.e., you play football in your freshman year, or you sat out your freshman year and are a 'red-shirt' freshman in your second year. The wording of the question ("He was a red-shirt as a true freshman?") confused me since, by my way of thinking, you can't be both a 'red-shirt' and a 'true freshman'. It would have been clearer to me if the question was, "You mean he was a 'red-shirt' his freshman year?" (Without the 'true-freshman' reference.) Mea maxima culpa, and apologies to 8and8Forever.

Meh...I'm pretty sure the Bills FO is counting on signing Jim's nephew Chad in 2015 anyway, after he finishes up at Clemson Chad Kelly

No, he was not a redshirt as a 'true freshman' - don't know where you got the notion he played as a 'true freshman' but nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to over-hyping Luck - he has, after all, as I understand, also single-handedly eradicated world hunger, poverty and disease - and is now rumored to be working that whole 'World Peace' thing as well Here ya go... Stanford - Andrew Luck .

Not 100% positive, but I'm pretty sure that's a decision he has to make before declaring for the 2012 draft (which, because of the remaining eligibility, he will have to do if he wants to be drafted in 2012). Once he declares, his NCAA eligibility is over, and whichever team drafts him retains his rights - even if he doesn't sign right away. IOW, he'll know who has the #1-overall pick before the deadline to declare - he can certainly make an intelligent guess as to whether or not that team needs a QB and will draft him (although he has no control over the team trading the pick to another team), but he can't declare and then decide he rather play another year at Stanford if he doesn't' like the city/team that ends up with his NFL rights. (Of course, he could simply hold out indefinitely in an attempt to force a trade.) The one thing it seems folks chose to overlook is, what if he and Stanford both suck in 2011? (I still think Landry Jones will be the #1-overall pick, especially after an undefeated Oklahoma wins the BCS championship.)

Wow - $15 tix and a free Ryan Fitzpatrick poster, and we still can't fill the place??? DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED

Best view will be from your roof.

That you again, Rob?